The economic system and the ecosphere are at risk of massive and abrupt change. From the popular financial blog "The Automatic Earth" writer "Ilargi" on the European banking mess, and blowback to America. Boston Globe journalist Dianne Dumanoski reads from book "The End of the Long Summer" Two part interview of Dr. Alder Stone Fuller on risk of abrupt and violent climate change.
Ilargi courtesy of theautomaticearth.blogpspot.com
Author Dianne Dumanoski reads from her book "The End of the Long Summer: Why We Must Remake Our Civilization to Survive on a Volatile Earth "
Some background music by Vastmandana at soundclick.com
Also available as 2 29 minute segments, posted below, for stations needing time for ID/announcements.
All eyes and ears are on the rumblings of a financial crash in the European banking system. Our correspondent from "The Automatic Earth" (one of the top 3 finance blogs) reports from Europe.
Ilargi says Greece is a distraction from the bankruptcy of American banks and governments. He also says more debt cannot solve too much debt. The Ponzi scheme (which holds our pensions and savings as well) has to end somewhere.
With a nod to OccupyWallSt.
Greens need to pay attention, Ilargi says, because any money needed for things like solar conversion, mass transit, new energy grid, are being tossed away right now to the black holes of banking and derivative debt. We will leave our children no options. They may fight for bare survival, eating up the last of the Earth.
Whatever happens financially, our second guest, Alder Stone Fuller, says massive climate change can no longer be avoided.
The IPCC shows slow steady growth of heat and rising seas. Alder Stone says reality is nothing like that. We will go through a long period of extreme weather, and possibly a sudden jump of more than 8 degrees in a decade.
Such wild swings in climate have happened many times in Earth's past. We can find them in the geological record. The last 10,000 years were abnormally stable.
Alder Stone taught advanced climate theory in his own academy in Eugene Oregon, and has now moved to New England. He's doing roving workshops, and setting up an online course, to learn about "Type II" climate shift, and Gaia theory.
If a sudden shift of climate is possible, we must learn "adaptability" skills, and shock-proof our basic systems (water, food) as Dianne Dumanoski wrote in her book "The End of the Long Summer". Dianne was a journalist for the Boston Globe for several decades.
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